Miracle Quotes - Page 32

• I love the whirling of the dervishes.
  I love the beauty of rare innocence.
  You don't need no crystal ball,
  Don't fall for a magic wand.
  We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

  Kate Bush

  Fall, Magic, Needs

  Song: Them Heavy People, Album: The Kick Inside, 1978

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• Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach 'back to nature' or 'forward to a world of love and beauty'; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell - that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.

  Karl Popper

  Beautiful, Dream, Attitude

  Karl Raimund Popper (1950). “The Open Society and Its Enemies”

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• Barring a miracle, the family that has existed since antiquity will likely crumble, presaging the fall of Western civilization itself. This is a time for concerted prayer, divine wisdom and greater courage than we have ever been called upon to exercise.

  James Dobson

  Prayer, Fall, Exercise

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• Without faith you can't see a miracle; you just see unexplained events.

  Tim Ward

  Events, Unexplained

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• Grace Kelly was a glacially cool, like a wonderful sherbet in the middle of the desert. Cooling, icy, clean. She was a genetic miracle, a superior woman.

  Oleg Cassini

  Grace, Desert, Icy

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• And also--to add to my problems--my parents and relatives kept telling me how they'd grown up feeling so close to the Almighty that they'd spoken to Him on a daily basis as one would speak to a friend and how, now and then, God had actually spoken back to them in the form of miracles.

  Victor Villasenor

  Parent, Feelings, Add

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• How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - thats not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Humility, Self, Would Be

  "Sheldon Whitehouse: God Won’t Save Us From Climate Catastrophe" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.

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• The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.

  William Cohen

  Peace, War, Cuban

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• Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their work, I would have performed miracles of scholarship and become Regius Professor of Modern History.

  David Ogilvy

  Education, Men, Creation Of Man

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• Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle Vicks VapoRub for the national charley horse, it's clear that his hands were reaching for any hands but mine.

  Natalie Angier

  Horse, Prayer, Hands

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• There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Art, Oscars, Entertainment

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• When I started in television, it was brand new. It was the miracle over in the corner of your room. Now the audience has seen every story line. People have heard every joke. They can predict the plot almost before a show starts. That's a hard, sophisticated audience to reach.

  Betty White

  People, Rooms, Plot

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• Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about [...] miracles. [...] And in any case, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins.

  Richard Dawkins

  Prayer, Believe, Mean

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". Interview with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• What I notice, as a historian reading stories about so-called nature miracles, the walking on the water, or the miraculous catch of fishes, they're done especially for the insiders, for the disciples. Usually healings and exorcisms are done for people along the road, as it were. Jesus doesn't come on the water to save the fishing fleet from Capernaum, he comes on the water to save the disciples. It's a parable, dummy, it's a parable, don't you get it? If the leadership of the church takes off in a boat without Jesus, it will sink, it will get nowhere.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Jesus, Reading, Healing

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• You're lucky if you find something you like to do, and it's a miracle if somebody will pay you to do it.

  James Patterson

  Lucky, Pay, Ifs

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in the economy will force China to open up its political system over time and to move toward a more democratic society. So taken as a whole, the one real failure in this whole business has been Russia.

  Milton Friedman

  Real, Moving, Taken

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

  Laurence Sterne

  Holy Days, Saint, Eternity

  Laurence Sterne (1834). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, in One Volume”, p.144

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• What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that “time shall be no more” means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Biblical, Past

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• Sehwag is a miracle, Sehwag is an institution

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Institutions

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• If you let your mind talk you out of things that aren't logical, you're going to have a very boring life. Because grace isn't logical. Love isn't logical. Miracles aren't logical.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love Is, Grace, Mind

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• Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Believe

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• Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Want, Crosses, Skeptic

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• What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

  David Quammen

  Life Is Hard, Cheerful, Answers

  David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• This is the glory and miracle of grace, that God, through the Holy Spirit, is able to transform a stubborn, rebellious, and unbelieving will into a passionate, obedient, believing will without violating the integrity of the individual or diminishing the voluntary nature of one's decision to trust Christ for salvation.

  Sam Storms

  Integrity, Believe, Decision

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• You are someone else's miracle! God is setting up divine appointments and it is our job to keep them

  Mark Batterson

  Jobs, Divine, Appointments

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